I have read the entire toughscript thread and none of the solutions there seemed to fix the issue. Ive reinstalled, cleared my registry, and done any other solution mentioned in the post.My ini file is as follows# Strip unused texttext_strip = 1

Yes my D drive is my secondary HDD, Ive even gone so far as to use my admin account to disable read-only mode for the entire drive. Ive done fresh installs of TS and ff7, including the exes gained from 7h even though they should have no effect on this process, i even tried changing the exe path in the ini file to the BC, MO, and even SS exes to see if any of those would change it.

Ok so something i noticed that is if i put the # back in my ini it dumps from the files from somewhere and makes the full list of txt files and fills them... but any changes i make has no effect in game. I deleted my txt folder and dumped again and the changes i made were still in the txt files.. So my TS is pulling from a set of game files somewhere, i thought it was from the source folder, but i deleted my source folder and it still pulled the same data.

Another update. I tried it on my wifes laptop (windows 8 whereas my pc is win 7) and i get the exact same error, I also first time installed steam and ff7 on it prior so there couldnt be any broken or modded files sitting in some location im not thinking of. It still pulled a full list of dialogue when all the file paths were excluded, encoded it and still no effect in game, dump the files again and the files still had the changes i made.

Then that's a problem. Steam does not use those locations that I know of out of the box. It definitely uses lang-en. I have never seen it use the 1998 path. This is a bought and paid for Steam original, yes?

Also those modify dates are not correct, so perhaps ts has already written to them once already somehow?

After conversion you can still play it by launching it through steam, it just doesnt load mods through the en.exe But ive tried using every exe in my folder to dump from, encode too, and launch with, even moved my game folder from D drive to my C drive and still got the error.

I checked your files. It works fine here. The spacing error will occur if ff7_en.exe is not being read. And iostream error if any file isn't being read.

I suggest moving all the files you want to decode or edit temporarily to c:\test and then change the ini so all paths are the same and point to the files in that folder. Place all needed files there. After that, you can move them back.

All I can think of at this stage is that some sort of permission issue is occurring with the paths you already have. You are running as admin, so I can't see it being a general permission issue.

Remove them for all paths and try that first. I didn't think it cared about those. If it still doesn't work after that, it will be the spaces in the paths causing the issue (I don't think this will happen), in which case, you will be forced to move to c:\test

Well from reading the TS release thread they used too as every instance of someone posting their file pathing had the " ".. and almost every program i can think of that you ahve to type in file paths uses the " "